Meiji

Built around 1891 in Tamba City, Hyogo, this gable-entered machiya still trades as the Kotsuzumi brewery shop. Registered in 2007 for its projecting zashiki wing.

Early Meiji two-storey clay storehouse at a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo, with a raised okiyane roof and plaster up to the eaves. Registered 2019.

A mid-Meiji composite building in Tatsuno joining a raw material store, salt-dissolving room and brewing rooms, its plaster and board east wall lining a waterway.

Two gabled Meiji storehouses in Tatsuno used as a koji room and anteroom, the koji room lined with insulated double brick and topped by a ventilating ridge.

An L-shaped mid-Meiji storehouse in Tatsuno: a street-front sundries store with a hip-and-gable end, black boarding and lattice windows, and a brewing wing behind.

A mid-Meiji brewing storehouse in Tatsuno with a pent roof, plaster walls, sasarako board cladding and latticed windows, dressed like the townhouse office beside it.

A 1908 headman's farmhouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a thatched roof under copper with tiled lean-tos, an earthen work area, six rooms and a formal entrance.

A late Meiji annex behind a headman's farmhouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo: one four-and-a-half-mat room with an alcove, boarded below and white above, by the storehouse.

A late Meiji gatehouse on the street front of a headman's homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: double plank doors with a wicket, black plaster outside, white inside.

A late Meiji gate and fence around the inner garden of a headman's house in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a bracketed gate with a sliding lattice door and a two-toned fence.

A late Meiji brick wall on the street front of a headman's homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: 2 metres high, tiled, grey outside and white inside to match the gatehouse.

Homei Sake Brewery Office No. 1 is a one-room Meiji office of 6.3 square meters in Tamba-Sasayama, with a near single-pitch roof and a lattice motif on its wall.

Homei Sake Brewery Office No. 2, a late Meiji hip-and-gable office in Tamba-Sasayama, stands by the south entrance that served the working brewery, not the shop.

Homei Sake Brewery Annex, a mid-Meiji wing in Tamba-Sasayama, has three tatami rooms, a Western room, a formal entrance and an alcove, registered for its design.

The Chushudo Hall of Hontokuji in Himeji, rebuilt in 1898 by the ninth Ito Heizaemon, joins two roofs in one of the few surviving chushudo halls of its kind.

In the silver-mining town of Ikuno, the Matsumoto Family Residence Main House joins an early Meiji gabled half to a hipped Taisho extension under one roofline.

Just 3.5 square metres, the Mizuguchi Family Residence Well House covers a stone well in Kurokawa, Kawanishi, registered in 2005 with a charcoal farmstead.

Beneath Kobe's Mt. Egeyama lies Minatogawa Zuido, Japan's first modern river tunnel, completed in 1901. Its horseshoe-shaped brick vault and granite floor showcase Meiji-era engineering at its finest. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2019, the tunnel opens to the public on select Saturdays, sometimes hosting evocative mini-concerts in its echoing chambers.

A tall one-storey store of about 1905 at the corner of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo, with white plaster, dark boards and a deep porch; registered 2009.

A small early-Meiji storehouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo, 3.9 m square, whose wall boarding is raised to match the older clothing storehouse beside it; registered 2009.